Joseph E Mcclelland (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. xi, 356 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm ; LCCN: 41-10057 ; LC: NK2230; Dewey: 749 ; OCLC: 813523 ; "Revised, February, 1941" ; dull orange cloth with brown lettering ; no dustjacket ; Contents: Part I. The development of decoration. Introductory ; Italy ; Spain ; France ; France: after Louis XIV ; England ; England : the age of walnut ; England : the age of mahogany ; England : the age of satinwood ; The nineteenth century ; Early American ; The Federal Period and after ; The twentieth century ; Contemporary design -- Part II. The elements of decoration. Materials of decoration ; Fabrics ; Wall coverings ; Floor coverings ; Decorative objects ; Color ; Lighting ; Windows and window treatment ; Furniture and how to buy it -- Part III. The principles of decoration. Room planning and arrangement ; Rooms ; Seasonal change. ; numerous black and white plates ; drawings ; each architect, designer and photographer is indicated, and includes work by Alexander H Girard, Bassett & Vollum, Ruth Campbell Bigelow, Richard Averill Smith, F S Lincoln, Sarah Hunter Kelly, Hubert Robert, Douglas Sommerville, M Therese Bonney, Nancy McClelland, Mattie Edwards Hewitt, Arthur S Vernay, H Leo Gould, William Helburn, Katherine Park Studdiford, Paul J Woolf, Ralph Steiner, Joseph Mullen, Felix Augenfeld, Richard Garrison, Gilbert Rohde, William Lescaze, Paul Bry, William Muschenheim, Joseph Allen Stein, Calvert Coggeshall, John Funk, Richard Neutra, Alvar Aalto, Edward Stone, Dan Cooper, Roy Barley, Kurt Schelling, Frank Randt, Ida Webster, Lucille Schlimme, Margery Sill Wickware, Edna Kern, Harrie Lindeberg, Tommi Parzinger, William Lescaze, Morris Sanders, James F Eppenstein, Virginia Conner, Gottscho, Paul MacAlister, Harwell Hamilton Harris, Harold Costair, Verna Cook Solomonsky, Ethel A Reeve, Van Anda, Evans Moore, Robsjohn-Gibbings, Sylvia Holt, Paul Laszlo, Fred R Dapprich, and Drix Duryea ; great industrial and interior photography; also features 1930's and 1940's art deco, 1950's populux and madcap designs ; sunned , name on front endpaper ; foxing, spot on cover ; else G. Book.

Condition: Good. On offer is an original 1898 manuscript diary handwritten by Joseph E. Mcclelland of Southfield, Michigan in Oakland County. Born in September 1864 he was 33 years old at the writing. Joseph was the Township Supervisor and he does a super job in this tiny diary detailing his daily activities, many dozens of visitors by name, going to socials, attending a surprise party, being nominated and elected for Township Supervisor, Supervisors meetings in Pontiac, going out taking assessments, making out road warrants, going to Detroit and seeing one of his girls "C.M.W.", going to the Sand Hill Fair and then sadly he writes his Father having strokes of paralysis, his death and funeral an much, much more over the 365 entries. Historians and collectors of the area will find, besides the super historical entries 11 pages with ledger entries. He also kept track of letters he wrote to a woman that he was seeing. Here are some snippets: "Drove team over to Beddow to get the shod, then went to Chase Smith in evening we all went to Margaret McClellands . Went to Franklin to hear Prof. Ferris lecture, took Mary Miller for company . Mary Logan and I went to Frank Harmon's to social in evening . Went down to Will Harmon's after posts and to Caucus, got the nomination for Supr. again . At election all day. Elected Supervisor by seventy nine majority . Father had a stroke of paralysis at 4:30 p.m., sit up most of the night with him . Father died at 9:30 a.m. Telephoned undertaker, notified friends . Went to factory, moving fence in forenoon. Emmer and Viola Coleman here visited in p.m. Annie and Emily Erwin called at home in eve . Drove over to Mr. Bristols and then to Tom Cooks to see David Young about settlement of case against township ." 2 1/4" x 4" covers absent but overall G+. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Autograph.